Maurice Ravel

This hauntingly beautiful piece is one of Maurice Ravel's most popular piano works. Robert W. Smith's transcription for winds contrasts a 'music box' effect in bells and triangle against the dynamic r...

This hauntingly beautiful piece is one of Maurice Ravel's most popular piano works. Robert W. Smith's transcription for winds contrasts a 'music box' effect in bells and triangle against the dynamic r...

This hauntingly beautiful piece is one of Maurice Ravel's most popular piano works. Robert W. Smith's transcription for winds contrasts a 'music box' effect in bells and triangle against the dynamic r...

This hauntingly beautiful piece is one of Maurice Ravel's most popular piano works. Robert W. Smith's transcription for winds contrasts a 'music box' effect in bells and triangle against the dynamic r...

From the 'Classics up to date' series.

Ravel originally wrote Ma mere l'oye (Mother Goose) as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children (just as he had ded...

Maurice Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work 'Bolero' (1928), which he considered trivial and once described as 'a piece for orchestra without music'. Bolero is a one-movement orchestra...

Maurice Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Bolero (1928), which he considered trivial and once described as a piece for orchestra without music. Bolero is a one-movement orchestral pi...

La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre, is written by Maurice Ravel from February 1919 until 1920. It was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work. The work has been...

La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre, is written by Maurice Ravel from February 1919 until 1920. It was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work. The work has been...

Maurice Ravel finished In 1905 his piano cycle 'Miroirs' of which some parts are orchestrated by the composer himself. Especially the fourth part, 'Alborada del gracioso', created in 1919 in Paris for...

Maurice Ravel's 'Piano Concerto in G major' was composed between 1929 and 1931. The concerto was deeply infused with jazz idioms and harmonies, which, at the time, were highly popular in Paris as well...

Maurice Ravel's 'Piano Concerto in G major' was composed between 1929 and 1931. The concerto was deeply infused with jazz idioms and harmonies, which, at the time, were highly popular in Paris as well...

Pavane pour une infante défunte' (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is a well-known piece written for solo piano by Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under...

Pavane pour une infante défunte' (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is a well-known piece written for solo piano by Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under...

Here is an arrangement, cleverly 'reduced' from 16 to 6 minutes, which is also playable for the 'Bezirksklasse' (intermediate level). However, you can't play it without practicing ! Din A4

Pavane pour une Infante Défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is one of Ravel's most popular pieces alongside "Boléro". Written in 1899, the original piano version was arranged for orchestra by the com...

Pavane pour une Infante Défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is one of Ravel's most popular pieces alongside "Boléro". Written in 1899, the original piano version was arranged for orchestra by the com...

Bolero was originally written as a ballet for a famous ballerina and achieved great success on the stage. Nowadays the ballet itself is only rarely performed and even though Ravel thought the orchestr...

Bolero was originally written as a ballet for a famous ballerina and achieved great success on the stage. Nowadays the ballet itself is only rarely performed and even though Ravel thought the orchestr...

Ravel's ballet, Daphnis and Chloé, was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered with the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1912. The ballet is now rarely performed, but its Suite No. 2 remains popular....

Ravel's ballet, Daphnis and Chloé, was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered with the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1912. The ballet is now rarely performed, but its Suite No. 2 remains popular....